Netflix’s Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is the second installment in Ryan Murphy’s controversial true-crime series, and it came with a built-in controversy that Monsters season 3 will smartly avoid. The series offers dramatized reenactments of infamous murder cases that captured national attention. The first season detailed the crimes and trial of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, but season 2 focused on a far more complicated casethe Menendez brothers’ self-defense killing of their parents in 1989, which resulted in the brothers being sentenced to life in prison.
